labile

• A lot of these people seemed unusually labile: not necessarily less complex than the crewmen with whom Deanna was familiar, but it was as if the controls normally trained into Fleet personnel to make living together easier had never been trained into these people at all-or as if no one had ever seen the need. —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
• I'm no patent lawyer, but how will Santarus prove that one skilled in the art, wouldn't know that the addition of a buffer to a PPI would help protect the acid-labile drug? —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
• The explanation may be that we marry people who are much like us, while friendships are more random and labile, and thus more likely to bump us out of our habitual moods. —  Integral Options Cafe
• A family of labile French hobgoblins bound together by one of the cheesiest movie metaphors - bad blood - and stewing volubly over old wounds goes home for the holidays and squabbles over who's going to save Catherine Deneuve. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
• This shows that the interaction between phage and bacterium resulting in release of the phage DNA from its protective membrane depends on labile components of the phage particle. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library

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